OT: Play Stupid Games, Win Stupid Prizes

JimmyinSD wrote:

even if you stay on your feet they can get you, they can rear up and use their front hooves as well as spin around and kick, white tails are freaky athletic, especially when they are frightened.

No doubt. Stay upright and play ring around a tree and you'll make it without a shiner or a couple huge lumps on your melon. Lots of middle aged to older hunters are top heavy so it doesn't take much for them to go down.

greediron wrote:

Along the lines of winning stupid prizes... But I can't get a proper embed.
https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/2076315928992608755

No wonder they're losing the war.

Solid 9.3....didn't stick the landing

StickierBuns wrote:

No doubt. Stay upright and play ring around a tree and you'll make it without a shiner or a couple huge lumps on your melon. Lots of middle aged to older hunters are top heavy so it doesn't take much for them to go down.

I used to have a security camera shot of a white tail clearing a 10' high fence ( 8ft chain link with a 2' barbed wire topper) at an airport construction project, crazy part was the deer had been coming up out of a slight ditch so it was more like clearing an 11- 12' tall fence.... but yet I see them snag their legs at times just going over my pasture fences which are only around 4.5' so maybe they all arent super jumpers.

MaroonBells wrote:

No wonder they're losing the war.

and the guy at the end grabs the damn barrel, frying his hand... o fer dumb.

JimmyinSD wrote:

and the guy at the end grabs the damn barrel, frying his hand... o fer dumb.

I doubt he felt it...

Vanguard83 wrote:

Solid 9.3....didn't stick the landing

In Yellowstone, the landing sticks you.

JimmyinSD wrote:

I used to have a security camera shot of a white tail clearing a 10' high fence ( 8ft chain link with a 2' barbed wire topper) at an airport construction project, crazy part was the deer had been coming up out of a slight ditch so it was more like clearing an 11- 12' tall fence.... but yet I see them snag their legs at times just going over my pasture fences which are only around 4.5' so maybe they all arent super jumpers.

It is just like jumping a stream, you always land where you look. Maybe the deer looked at the top wire instead of just jumping over it.

greediron wrote:

In Yellowstone, the landing sticks you.

Just drop him off at the 'train station'.....

People need to stay in their cars like the signs say.

MaroonBells wrote:

"Bison have no lateral movement, hesi to the right & sidestep to the left?" Kaleb Johnson would've been dead meat.

I definitely LOL'd at this haha.

Canthony wrote:

I definitely LOL'd at this haha.

I had to look it up...

28 rushes for 69 yards in his rook year?

Carl McDaniel, 65, was hospitalized with a broken femur after a bison charged and tossed him into the air Friday evening at the park’s Bridge Bay Campground, according to McDaniel and the National Park Service.

He was visiting the park with his 13-year-old grandson when they decided to take a walk after dinner.

Along the way, they encountered a large bison that appeared to be rolling around in the dust and was not bothering anyone, McDaniel told CNN.

“We were about a hundred yards away,” McDaniel said. “He was not aggressive; he was not having problems and we took some pictures and decided to walk on.”

McDaniel and his grandson snapped a quick photo and continued with their walk, video of the encounter shows. At the same time, a truck drove by, and the driver laid on his horn in what appeared to be an attempt to get the bison to move, McDaniel said. There is no audio on the video.

The bison then appeared to become agitated and began running toward the pair.

“There was little time to decide what to do. At that point, he was within 100 yards; he could be to us in seconds, so I told my grandson to run in one direction and I went the other to try and draw him away,” McDaniel said.

The animal then pushed McDaniel with the top of its head, sending him flying into the air before he hit the ground, the grandfather said.

“When I was on the ground immobile, unable to move, he was right on top of me. He could have stomped on me, he could have gored me, he could have done almost anything to take my life, and he did not do so,” McDaniel said.

After McDaniel hit the ground, photographer Mike MacLeod, who captured the encounter on video, had to step in, he told Cowboy State Daily.

“I was really afraid he was going to gore the guy on the ground, so I stopped videotaping and ran at the bison, yelled loud, and was trying to be as big and intimidating as possible,” MacLeod said.

Photographer Mike MacLeod says the Bison attack victim immediately asked about his grandson

After the bison took off, people rushed over to McDaniel, who was in a lot of pain, MacLeod told Cowboy State Daily. Yellowstone EMS arrived soon after, he said.

“Park emergency medical personnel responded and transported him to a nearby hospital,” the National Park Service said in confirming the incident in a statement to CNN.

This is the second bison attack at Yellowstone this year. A 12-year-old was injured near Mud Volcano on June 26, according to the agency.

After Friday’s attack, “all the people that were there were amazing; they were all positive, they were trying to help as best they could,” McDaniel said. A nurse started tending to his leg, while another bystander held his head.

He was then transferred to a hospital in Bozeman, a two-hour journey during which he was in intense pain. He said he was grateful for the paramedic who helped him along the way.

McDaniel broke his femur, the body’s strongest bone, in four places near his hip and suffered several bruises. He had surgery Sunday and could stand by Monday.

“I will be doing physical therapy for the next few days to get to walk, but it was not as catastrophic as it could have been,” McDaniel said.

CNN

purplefaithful wrote:

I had to look it up...
28 rushes for 69 yards in his rook year?

I studied that RB class pretty hard. When I came to Kaleb Johnson, I couldn't find an example of him moving laterally or being the least bit creative at the line of scrimmage. So I watched more, nothing. At the time, Thor Nystrom was calling him "RB1b" behind Jeanty, so I got into a twitter debate with him. Show me Johnson making someone miss by moving laterally. You can't find it because it's not there. His running style might work at Iowa where he typically had 8-foot holes to run through, but it doesn't work in the NFL. I predicted he'd be a bust and that seems to be the prevailing belief in Pittsburgh going into his 2nd season.

FourCornersViking wrote:

People need to stay in their cars like the signs say.

uhm, this is a camp ground or picnic area IIRC. sometimes bad shit just happens. this is a matter of wrong place wrong time. dont get me wrong, i love to blame the ignorant as much as anybody ( i hate precaution labels on products... by all means run the shampoo in your eyes) but from what I have seen and read... this is just a matter of human/wildlife interface gone wrong.

JustInTime wrote:

https://twitter.com/stoneterry912/status/2076693581184532529

that really never gets old... just like "by all means, I am bored, please... pet the fluffy cows"

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The Cree judge will have some explaining to do.

purplefaithful wrote:

Carl McDaniel, 65, was hospitalized with a broken femur after a bison charged and tossed him into the air Friday evening at the park’s Bridge Bay Campground, according to McDaniel and the National Park Service.
He was visiting the park with his 13-year-old grandson when they decided to take a walk after dinner.
Along the way, they encountered a large bison that appeared to be rolling around in the dust and was not bothering anyone, McDaniel told CNN.
“We were about a hundred yards away,” McDaniel said. “He was not aggressive; he was not having problems and we took some pictures and decided to walk on.”
McDaniel and his grandson snapped a quick photo and continued with their walk, video of the encounter shows. At the same time, a truck drove by, and the driver laid on his horn in what appeared to be an attempt to get the bison to move, McDaniel said. There is no audio on the video.
The bison then appeared to become agitated and began running toward the pair.
“There was little time to decide what to do. At that point, he was within 100 yards; he could be to us in seconds, so I told my grandson to run in one direction and I went the other to try and draw him away,” McDaniel said.
The animal then pushed McDaniel with the top of its head, sending him flying into the air before he hit the ground, the grandfather said.
“When I was on the ground immobile, unable to move, he was right on top of me. He could have stomped on me, he could have gored me, he could have done almost anything to take my life, and he did not do so,” McDaniel said.
After McDaniel hit the ground, photographer Mike MacLeod, who captured the encounter on video, had to step in, he told Cowboy State Daily.
“I was really afraid he was going to gore the guy on the ground, so I stopped videotaping and ran at the bison, yelled loud, and was trying to be as big and intimidating as possible,” MacLeod said.
Photographer Mike MacLeod says the Bison attack victim immediately asked about his grandson
After the bison took off, people rushed over to McDaniel, who was in a lot of pain, MacLeod told Cowboy State Daily. Yellowstone EMS arrived soon after, he said.
“Park emergency medical personnel responded and transported him to a nearby hospital,” the National Park Service said in confirming the incident in a statement to CNN.
This is the second bison attack at Yellowstone this year. A 12-year-old was injured near Mud Volcano on June 26, according to the agency.
After Friday’s attack, “all the people that were there were amazing; they were all positive, they were trying to help as best they could,” McDaniel said. A nurse started tending to his leg, while another bystander held his head.
He was then transferred to a hospital in Bozeman, a two-hour journey during which he was in intense pain. He said he was grateful for the paramedic who helped him along the way.
McDaniel broke his femur, the body’s strongest bone, in four places near his hip and suffered several bruises. He had surgery Sunday and could stand by Monday.
“I will be doing physical therapy for the next few days to get to walk, but it was not as catastrophic as it could have been,” McDaniel said.
CNN

Sounds like the driver of the truck is to blame as much as anyone.

"The animal then pushed McDaniel with the top of its head, "

That has to be the worst description of what happened. Who the hell writes this garbage?